Whipped Cream Difficulties

…just really nothing to write about.

I want to do some more gun and gun book blogging, but I’m going to be busy through Wednesday and just won’t have time.

This coming weekend is my birthday. I plan to be fairly busy for much of it: I’m taking Friday and Monday off work, and expect to be running around a lot (including some gun shopping) over the weekend. I also have some errands I want to run.

All of this is to say I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox posting is going to be catch as catch can probably through Tuesday of next week.

While I am a Cisco employee, I have no additional information about the Splunk acquisition beyond what has already been made public.

If I did have such information – which, again, I do not – I could not legally discuss it here anyway.

Just sayin’.

I apologize for the radio silence the past couple of days.

The power at our house went out shortly before 7 AM (CT) on Wednesday and is still not restored at the time of this writing.

I was thinking it’d be back on sometime on Wednesday. Then I was thinking sometime on Thursday.

I’ve gone into the office this morning to get work done and things charged. I managed to keep the cell phones charged up by tapping the battery on my laptop, but I ran that down to 2% before I got into the office. I have a UPS protecting the network equipment at the house (cable modem/router/issued work from home gear) but it feels like the same event that took out the power also took out Spectrum internet in our area, so I couldn’t get an Internet connection anyway. And by now, the UPS is fully discharged (though it will run for about five hours with all that crap connected to it).

AUSTIN, Texas – Austin Energy says there is no timeline for system-wide power restorations, after saying on Wednesday it could be restored by Friday evening.

To be clear about this, the issue is not an ERCOT/power grid problem, like it was a while back. This is just simply ice accumulation on power lines bringing them down, and ice accumulation on trees causing limbs to fall and take out power lines.

Edited to add: power restored at our house at about 1 PM CT today. So that’s about 54 hours without electricity, by my reckoning.

I haven’t forgotten about part two of Day of the .45. I do want to get that up. Unfortunately, the weather on Saturday was bad for photo taking, Sunday was entirely consumed by battleship, and the weather so far this week is also kind of hinky.

This weekend is looking less busy, so if the weather holds up and we get some sunlight, I may be able to take some photos and get a post up.

Also have some more books to post about as well, but that should be an easier process as it does not depend so much on good weather. Possibly Thursday?

And I also have not forgotten that I need to update the City Council/Commissioner’s Court/Congressional Representatives lists. That is, for sure, on the agenda, especially in light of recent events. As I think everyone knows, I try to wait until after January 20th to update those lists, as it takes time for people to get sworn in and websites to get updated. Updating those lists is also part of my evil master plan for this week.

I feel like I shouldn’t need to say this, and that I have to say this.

I do not necessarily agree with all the comments I approve here. However, I will not censor comments except under very limited conditions:

• Obvious spam.
• Personal insults directed at other commenters.
• A court order from a court of competent jurisdiction. (However, to steal a line from Nick Fury: “I recognize the council has made a decision, but given that it’s a stupid-ass decision, I’ve elected to ignore it.”)

This is your yearly administrative note. Back on your heads.